Up to Something Bigger

Being given being and action by being committed to something bigger than oneself.

This is the ticket into the game of leadership. You don’t need the being of a leader nor the effective exercise of leadership if you can accomplish what you have set out with your usual repertoire of dealing with life, living and your projects.

Our normal day-to-day survival skills are entirely adequate. It is when there is a difference we want to make and we have not a clue how to do it. Then is when this technology really shines.

Having something bigger than ourselves puts us on-the-court, real-time, as-lived. Otherwise we are dealing with it conceptually as though we were in-the-stands reporting on what is going on down on the field.

Erhard, Werner and Jensen, Michael C. and Zaffron, Steve and Echeverria, Jeronima, Course Materials for: ‘Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological/Phenomenological Model’ (October 4, 2022). Harvard Business School NOM Working Paper No. 09-038, Simon School Working Paper No. 08-03, Barbados Group Working Paper No. 08-02, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1263835 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1263835